In the Scripted World of Diplomacy, a Burst of Tweets. Less filtered: State Department official’s “F*ck the EU” conversation released on YouTube. Don’t be surprised if your TV soon seems to know everything about your politics...
If I have one piece of advice for digital advocacy newbies, it’s this: learn HTML. You wouldn’t believe how many times it’s saved my ass. Every year, a new crop of aspiring digital communicators hits the street, many of them right...
Poster child for brain-dead TV-buying, 2012 edition A couple of recent articles have highlighted a flood of money entering Senate races via “independent expenditure” groups, some of them narrowly focused: By the fall, political...
Update: check out this clever parody site, ParaBellumLabs.org…well done! And why the hell didn’t someone at the RNC buy that domain? More fruits of the Republican effort to catch up with Democrats on the technology front: The RNC Tuesday...
Here’s something folks may want to keep close at hand: a straightforward guide to your (current) Facebook advertising options. A friend was looking for one recently, and Fb’s Katie Harbath was happy to provide. The basic options...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 500 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: Planned Parenthood’s popular post-SOTU post only made it to fifth place on...
On Wednesday I had the pleasure of going on Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics Radio show, and as always, we had a great conversation. Check it out for yourself! Here are just a few things we talked about: Social media and narrowcasting SOTU...
Multiple GOP SOTU responses: a canny “narrowcasting” technique? Key quote: “a YouTube response sent directly to people who already support Paul is mainly about energizing and expanding his list.” Also note: “a good list...
Congraulations to the communications folks at Planned Parenthood Action!* According to Crowdtangle, they won the internet last night with a Facebook post dinging the official Republican response to the State of the Union: Post by Planned Parenthood...
President Obama delivers the annual State of the Union address tonight, and professional political communicators all over DC are getting ready for the accompanying spin war. Here’s how I described that process a couple of years back: Hear that...